Most westerners would probably think that the roots of democracy lie in Ancient Athens, when the city state established the process by which all citizens, well, men of Athenian parentage, had an equal say in the decisions of the state. This model of ‘equally shared’ consensus decision making has wobbled, been ignored and often forgotten in intervening history but the concept has endured. But wa...

The role of sensory-motor components in language processing is a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. Recent studies showed that the processing of action words recruits cortical motor regions involved in the planning and execution of the described actions. However, it remains unclear to what extent the abstract versus concrete nature of the described motion modulates the activation of premo...

Information retrieval test sets consist of three parts: documents, topics, and assessments. Assessments are time-consuming to generate. Even using pooling it took about 7 hours per topic to assess for INEX 2006. Traditionally the assessment of a single topic is performed by a single human. Herein we examine the consequences of using multiple assessors per topic. A set of 15 topics were used. Th...

In this paper we give a brief overview of the Webis group’s participation in the TREC 2013 Session and Web tracks. All our runs are on the full ClueWeb12 and use the online Indri retrieval system hosted at CMU. As for the session track, our runs implement three main ideas that were slightly improved compared to our participation in 2012: (1) distinguishing low risk sessions where we want to inv...

The identification of the genetic structure of populations from multilocus genotype data has become a central component of modern population-genetic data analysis. Application of model-based clustering programs often entails a number of steps, in which the user considers different modelling assumptions, compares results across different predetermined values of the number of assumed clusters (a ...

Click trains were generated with first- and second-order statistics following Kaernbach and Demany [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 2298-2306 (1998)]. First-order intervals are between successive clicks, while second-order intervals are those between every other click. Click trains were generated with a repeating alternation of fixed and random intervals which produce a pitch at the reciprocal of the ...

This is an overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT task, which comprises the Subtopic Mining and the Document Ranking subtasks. The INTENT task attracted participating teams from seven different countries/regions – 16 teams for Subtopic Mining and 8 teams for Document Ranking. The Subtopic Mining subtask received 42 Chinese runs and 14 Japanese runs; the Document Ranking subtask received 24 Chinese runs...

Sulfuric acid ([3-(3-silicapropyl)sulfanyl]propyl]ester (SASPSPE) is employed as a recyclable catalyst for the silylation of hydroxyl groups. A good range of primary, secondary alcohols and phenolic hydroxyl groups were effectively converted into their corresponding trimethylsilyl ethers with hexamethyldisilazane in the presence of catalytic amounts of SASPSPE at room temperature with short rea...

In this paper we describe the specifications and results of UMCC_DLSI system, which was involved in Semeval-2014 addressing two subtasks of Semantic Textual Similarity (STS, Task 10, for English and Spanish), and one subtask of Cross-Level Semantic Similarity (Task 3). As a supervised system, it was provided by different types of lexical and semantic features to train a classifier which was use...

Sulfuric acid ([3-(3-silicapropyl)sulfanyl]propyl]ester (SASPSPE) is employed as a recyclable catalyst for the silylation of hydroxyl groups. A good range of primary, secondary alcohols and phenolic hydroxyl groups were effectively converted into their corresponding trimethylsilyl ethers with hexamethyldisilazane in the presence of catalytic amounts of SASPSPE at room temperature with short rea...